These Are New York City's Most Rat-Infested Neighborhoods

It's gotten so bad that the city started a "Rat Indexing" program
in 2008 where city officials inspect properties, look for active
rat signs and problem conditions that attract rats, and track
complaints about rats in parks, public housing, and schools.

New Yorkers can search by borough, address, block number, and zip
code to pull up all inspection results and rat violations, as
well as view the individual data on how many rat inspections have
failed in your area.

We compiled the data from the most recent 2012 numbers, and found the 10
zip codes that have the worst rat infestations by the percent of
initial inspections that had active rat signs as well as the
percent of follow up inspections that failed, excluding all zip
codes with less than 10 inspections.